Panasonic RV31 choppy garbled playback

[jasonlg3d]

I have a Panasonic RV31 DVD Player. I made a vcd and it plays but the picture is garbled and it freezes and skips like mad. The audio is also afoul. I pops and crackles like a bowl of rice krispies.

I converted movie to vcd format using adobe premiere 6.5's VCD format option. Then i burned it with Nero using the VCD template. I used an iomega blank cd. I tried burning it at 2x 4x and 8x and nothing works, same result on all 3. I also tried a menu and the menu is garbled. In big blocky patches yet some are missing. Can anyone give me any help?

BTW, My DVD player does support VCD's i checked.

Thanks all.

[fossil]

bite it, it's a a sucky player. i have it too and i got me a cheap dvd made by mysonic. and that works great. the damn R31 doesn't even play DVD-R i made,sighs

[eric.townsend]

what sucks is the encoding. I have that player and it plays compliant VCD's just fine, even SVCD's with the header trick.

Sorry, don't know about Premiere but the player is fine.

[jasonlg3d]

How are you encoding your files eric? Could you give me a run down of the process you use. Thanks.

[neomaine]

I had the same player. 10 to 1 says its your running media it doesn't like and not your encoding process. Which is virtually ALL CD-Rs. Once I went to CD-RW (Memorex) things worked like a charm.

[eric.townsend]

Rip with CladDVD XP (works in W2K) and at the same time frameserve with the internal DVD2AVI, feed the resulting .d2v and .wav into TMPEng using the standard VCD template or i can recommend Pinoy2201's VCD template for much better results; burn the resulting .mpg using Nero (iv'e burned at all speeds up to 12x) and you're done. I can take a disk made that way, from my computer straight to my rv31 and it plays no problem.

Now-a-day i've gotten lazy and only use this amazing (all-in-one) program called EasyVCD (for some reason i can't seem to attach links); give it a try (don't forget to donate if you like it) and you will also be able to play that disk in the panasonic rv31.

As a side note, you might want to experiment with one of Kwag's KVCD templates, you'll have to experiment to see which one works for you but once you figure it out, you'll get the best result IN MY OPINION.

Eric

(Hey, where's the spell checker?)